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Points of Interest
along your Walk
Newmarket to
Stetchworth
5 miles (8km)
1. Newmarket - the centre of the racehorse industry
since 1309 and home to the Jockey Club and famous
horse races. Visit the National Horseracing Museum and
the National Stud and watch the racehorses exercise on
the gallops in the morning. The Stour Valley Path starts at
the Clock Tower at the top of Newmarket High Street.
Walk Highlights
The headwaters of the River Stour are in isolated country near
Newmarket, so the home of British horseracing is a convenient place to
start or finish the Path. The town has regular train and bus services as
well as providing a choice of accommodation and refreshment places.
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Awesome Devil’s Dyke is nearby, a massive earthwork of early Anglo
Saxon origin, now home to chalk-loving wild flowers including the
distinctive pasque flower and many butterflies. In clear weather the
outline of Ely cathedral can be seen on the horizon 14 miles to the
north west.
2. Chalkhill blue - look out for this rare
butterfly as you walk the Devil’s Dyke. Only found in chalk
or limestone areas where the larval foodplant, Horseshoe
Vetch, is found in abundance. It is a warmth-loving
butterfly, typically found on sheltered, south-facing
hillsides.
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3. Devil’s Dyke – this 7.5 mile
defensive structure stretching from the
fens to Woodditton, was built in the 6th century to
guard East Anglia from the south west when skirmishes
between Britons and Saxons were common. The dyke
is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Site of
Special Scientific Interest.
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4. Wildflowers – the dyke has one of the few surviving remnants of
chalk grassland in the region and supports a rich flora, including
rockrose, milkwort, restharrow, pasque flower, bee orchid,
bellflowers, pyramidal orchid, sanfoin, harebells, centaury, scabious
and wild geranium.
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Route Key
5 miles (8km)
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2014 Ordnance Survey 100023395.
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